There are a lot of creepy-looking truck stops all over the world; they’re often not only dirty but also full of shady people who are always up to no good. Despite all of that, many people find themselves forced to stop at these creepy places simply because they have to.
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Each one of us surely has a similar story with a confusing plot twist and several creepy details. Here are a couple of stories about the weird and creepy things that happened to people while they were at truck stops. Scroll down and check them out for yourself!
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“Once at a rest stop, I parked and exited my car when a woman approached me and started screaming in my face that I stole her pet turtle when she wasn't looking a few miles back up the road, and that she had followed me to get it back.I was completely confused and didn’t know what to say, but I really had to pee, so I went inside and did. When I came back out, she was gone, but my car was covered in napkins with writing on them that I couldn't read.I never saw her again.”
2. "I saw some naked dude running away."
“A little over 10 years ago, my band was on tour somewhere in Texas or Oklahoma (we were riding along the border, so I don't remember exactly which side the truck stop was on).It was about 3 in the morning in the dead of winter, and I stopped for food while the other guys slept. I was talking to the clerk, waiting for my chimichanga, when this dude walked in and went straight for the bathroom/shower area.About 10 minutes later, the dude walked back out, butt-naked, with what we can only assume was feces covering his entire front side, like a full-blown feces mask from face to ankles. The dude walked outside, jumped on the hood of a white car, and then walked back in to buy a single Slim Jim stick.The cashier vehemently told the dude to just take it and go. The guy took the Slim Jim outside, stuck it up his butt, and sprinted out of sight.I paid for the chimi (even though I wasn't going to eat it) and my energy drink, and went back to the van just baffled by the whole thing when the singer, who was in the passenger seat, asked if I saw some naked dude running away.I guess he stopped by the van and asked to borrow some weirdly specific amount of change and ran off before I could answer.”
3. The Naked Man
“I worked at a weigh station for big rigs.There were two of us at the station working nights, waiting for trucks to pull onto the scale. If anything weighing more than a pound got on the scale, it would send an audible beep into the booth and light up the computers.If it wasn’t a truck, then most of the time it would be the wildlife wandering onto the scale, which we would ignore, then quickly go back to watching Netflix or whatever. One night, though, it was something weighing 132 lbs.We couldn’t see it from the windows, but checking the cameras, we noticed it was a hunched-over naked man shaking like a dog and scratching the side of his face. While my co-worker radioed for the State Troopers, I used the intercom to tell him to get off the scale.Instead, he lurched over and began licking the window. He did this until he was checked out by EMS and taken away by law enforcement for public intoxication.It was later discovered he was using meth.”
4. Two women in the parking lot covered in chocolate
“When I was a maintenance worker for a truck stop, I got a call over the radio saying there were two women in the parking lot covered in chocolate. I thought, 'Well, as long as they don’t come into the store.'I went outside to find two women, completely naked, covered in a brown substance (I hoped to God it was chocolate). The sheriff was called, and apparently, they were both completely sober.They were there for a sorority event. They were issued a ticket, and it was, indeed, chocolate.”
5. Lot Lizards
“I worked at a truck stop in East Tennessee for a summer. We kept getting reports of a 'lot lizard' (a prostitute that works truckers), but we could never catch her.It turned out the lot lizard was one of our employees, and her madam was another one who would sit in her car with a CB radio on her breaks, setting up the meetings.The girl in question was an East Tennessee eight (which probably translates to a big city three).”
6. "Have You Seen My Dog?"
“I saw a guy on a leash that was tied to a tree.On that same trip, there was a guy saying, 'Have you seen my dog? He’s a good boy,' at the next rest stop over.I always wondered if the two wereconnected…”
7. "Felt bad for the guy. I wouldn’t want to go out that way."
“I was an overnight shift supervisor 15 years ago.On Valentine’s Day, when I was 18 years old, I was the only lonely shift supervisor available to work the second shift at McDonald’s rest area because, again, I was lonely with no date. I was half asleep working the shift when a guy came in high as a kite; actually, he was higher than kites can go.He ordered his food and left. An hour later, my cleaning guy (we’ll call him Pedro) told me there was a guy in the toilet who wouldn’t come out. We went in, kept knocking, and we thought he was sleeping on the toilet. We could see his pants around his ankles, and he was leaning down.While I went to call the cops, I told my cleaning guy to block the bathroom so no one could go into that part of it – there are two sides to the bathroom. Pedro came out and told me the guy was purple and dead on the toilet. He had overdosed on something; I’m not sure what. The kicker is that Pedro decided it was in his best interest to search the guy's pockets before the cops showed up – which is how he found out the guy was dead.Pedro took the guy's stash and money before leaving. I found out a week later as I overheard it through the crew talking. Fun times at that place. I felt bad for the guy. I wouldn’t want to go out that way.”
8. Robbed At Gunpoint
“I worked at a Dairy Queen in the truck stop when we all got robbed at gunpoint.I feel like the story is pretty self-explanatory. There were no customers in at the time. This guy walked in with a pistol I couldn’t tell you the name of, waving it around like a foam finger.He told me to empty the register of all the paper money. I stood there blankly, completely unsure of what to do. I politely informed him there was no way for me to open the register without a supervisor code and that I just made minimum wage.He called me a f*cking dumbass and told me to ring up a Blizzard or something and hit cash. I said, 'Oh, okay.' He collected his payment from the mini Wendy's and the convenience portion and just left. The cops took notes, but there was no follow-up.It was only about 350 bucks. The gas station part probably had more to offer. Anyway, I quit about a month after that.”
9. Kansas, In The Middle Of Nowhere
“One time, a friend and I walked into a rest area bathroom late one night. We were traveling from Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX, to Ft. Collins, CO. We were in Kansas and in the middle of nowhere.The parking lot was empty save for a few cars. We walked into the men’s room and stumbled into what had to be a big-time drug deal: 5-7 well-dressed but shady-looking dudes in a circle facing each other. There was a briefcase. My friend and I stopped immediately.They were looking at us, and we were looking at them. We then walked over to the urinals. In our fear, it just seemed like we should play it off and be cool. We were obviously not cops; we were a couple of dirty longhairs in Butthole Surfers t-shirts and smelled like weed.I’ve never been so scared taking a leak in my entire life. I swear I thought we were going to be shot in the back of our heads. We pissed and got the hell out. I know what you’re going to ask.No, I did not wash my hands.”
10. "Gas was literally spilling everywhere"
“We had a guy come in with four stab wounds to his chest, and all he wanted to do was call his mom. We called the cops for him, and it turned out that his girlfriend had stabbed him. When the cops showed up, they told him to just go home…One of my coworkers had a gun pulled on him because he opened a can of soda, and it made a loud pop that scared the customer. This person accidentally put their car in drive instead of reverse and drove into the store.The power went out in the store, and as protocol, we had to evacuate when that happened. We had a customer screaming at the top of her lungs that we were trying to sexually assault her when we tried to get her to leave the store.A semi-truck driver drove over two of our gas pumps because she couldn’t turn correctly, and then she fled the scene. Gas was literally spilling everywhere. Luckily, we caught it all on video, so we were able to contact her company and get her to take responsibility for the damages.”
11. Gorgeous Blond
“I worked for a truck stop for a summer in Montana circa 1993. What an experience! This gorgeous blonde filled her van and came to the till to pay. I was behind the counter, and she started flirting with me. I was smitten from the get-go. I went on break, and we had coffee together in the lounge. We exchanged phone numbers and addresses. She was from Florida.She got up to leave and ran to the washroom before I returned to work. She came back and gave me this beautiful purple vial, saying it contained something to remember her by until we met again. She hugged and kissed me goodbye. I was over the moon.Later that night, I opened the vial and took a whiff of what was sure to be a pleasant aroma. Instead, I inhaled what must have been toxic sludge collected from a public porta-potty on a hot day in Juarez.The woman called me a couple of days later, and I asked what she put in the vial. She said she defecated in the washroom and gave me a sample of her excrement to remember her by, and it was a very intimate gift in her religion. She asked if her smell made me hard. Gross!!!”
12. Millions Of Bugs
“The weirdest experience was pulling up to a truck stop to fill up in southeastern South Dakota during the height of the mayfly hatch—millions of bugs all over.I started filling up and was getting ready to clean my windshield when I happened to look over across the way and saw some dude driving a big box truck in the diesel fueling area.He was scraping them off the front of his truck and eating them by the handful. Ah, the days before cell phones were a thing.”
13. "She immediately just told me to go into the house without even looking"
“My mom, her ex-boyfriend, and I lived in a house directly next to a rest area because they worked there, and I guess the house came as a package deal since we were so far away from everything.I was around 6 or 7 and would adventure around it every day, finding some neat stuff people had left behind for however long.I remember that one day my mom was coming to get me, and I was near the dumpsters. She stopped right in front of them, taken aback because she had smelled something so foul (you know, more foul than usual) that she immediately just told me to go into the house without even looking.She didn’t tell me until I was in high school that they had found dismembered body parts in there, as well as scattered around the rest area once they investigated further. I’m really glad I didn’t find anything myself.”
14. The Police Are On Their Way
“Years ago, when I was a kid, we were traveling with my mom, her best friend, and my sisters.We were pretty tired and pulled into a truck stop for some food and a bathroom break. We walked in, and my mum asked a guy where the bathrooms were; he pointed us in the right direction, and off we went.We came out, took a seat, and waited for the waitress to come take our order. She seemed to be taking a while, but we figured she was probably busy and would come when she could. Eventually, she came over and told my mum that everything was okay and that the police were on their way. My mum, pretty confused, asked her what she meant.Well, it turns out we had walked into the middle of an armed robbery, and my mum had actually asked the robber where the toilets were.”
